memory

memory

MEMORY. Understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a
crime, so far as intention is necessary.
2. Memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the
understanding, and sometimes its power; when we speak of a retentive memory,
we use it in the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter. Shelf.
on Lun. Intr. 29, 30.
3. Memory, in another sense, is the reputation, good or bad, which a
man leaves at his death. This memory, when good, is highly prized by the
relations of the deceased, and it is therefore libelous to throw a shade
over the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a
breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased
to avenge the insult offered to the family. 4 T. R. 126; 5 Co. R. 125; Hawk.
b. 1, c. 73, s. 1.

MEMORY, TIME OF. According to the English common law, which has been altered
by 2 & 3 Wm. IV., c. 71, the time of memory commenced from the reign of
Richard the First, A. D. 1189. 2 Bl. Com. 31.
2. But proof of a regular usage for twenty years, not explained or
contradicted, is evidence upon which many public and private rights are
held, and sufficient for a jury in finding the existence of an immemorial
custom or prescription. 2 Saund. 175, a, d; Peake's Ev. 336; 2 Price's R.
450; 4 Price's R. 198.

Patients who have an atypical presentation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) but nonetheless have the amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles of tau protein that pathologically diagnose the disease have much less hippocampal atrophy than do patients who present with the typical clinical characteristics used to diagnose AD--loss of episodic memory, executive dysfunction, visuospatial and perceptual deficits, and language dysfunction, Dr.

For a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the proposed criteria would require presence of an objective confirmed episodic memory disorder plus at least one of the following: a structural abnormality, probably atrophy of the mediotemporal lobe as seen on magnetic resonance imaging; a characteristic biochemical marker obtained from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); or functional brain impairment as seen on positron emission tomography or single photon emission computed tomography.

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